Today we are taking a look at the current generation mid-range graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia. This article features the GeForce 8600 GT/GTS while the Radeon HD 2600XT/Pro will also be included. These affordable graphics cards will be tested in a wide variety of games as we are looking for which solution offers gamers the best bang for their buck.

Performance wise the results did play in favour of the GeForce 8600 series for the most part, while 30% of the results were too close to call, the GeForce 8600 series did clearly win at least 40% of the tests. As we found when comparing the GeForce 8800 series to the Radeon HD 2900XT, the performance of the Radeon was quite good at times, yet it did tend to fluctuate quite a lot, which often placed the Radeon in a bad position. The GeForce graphics cards on the other hand delivered quite consistent performance, which meant that when they did suffer a loss to the Radeons, the margins were never all that great.



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